Life Outdoors 09

High Carley: snow

amandahan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:31:55 +0000

and we had even more snow fall over night – a total of 9 inches on the balcony and over 18 in the field….

our Christmas tree this morning

snow on the balcony

our garden

our lane

Storm, Amanda and Siula

High Carley

The Audi

High Carley: snow

amandahan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:19:25 +0000

I thought I’d share some of the pictures we took of the snow.

On our return from Surrey we left the passat up on the main road that gets ploughed so Ian could get to work, the Audi was already buried in a snow drift with no chance of it moving!

our Christmas tree

High Carley

our lane

the main road being ploughed

our garden

Copse End: Christmas with family

amandahan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:51:40 +0000

Today the Han family went for Christmas lunch at The Percy Arms, Chilsworth ……

Esther and Amanda dressed and ready to party

Esther and Sylvia

Larisa and Joshua

Liz, Tin and Esther

Tony and Sylvia

Larisa and Calvert

Cho Yee, Amanda and Esther

Esther, Cho Yee, Amanda and Emilia

and this is what we found when we drove back home later that night…..

The Audi

the Audi remained under a pile of snow and didnt move until the 13th Jan 2010 and even then it was only with snow chains!

Copse End: Christmas with family

amandahan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:44:46 +0000

Ian and I went to Copse End in Surrey for the weekend for family fun.

Esther, Calvert, Larisa, Iand and Joshua (charming as usual!)….

Kiroughtree and Creetown, Dumfrieshire

amandahan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:30:23 +0000

and while Ian was cycling this……

I was visiting the local chambered cairn’s

Kirroughtree and Creetown, Dumfrieshire

amandahan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:18:58 +0000

Well this is Creetown’s campsite on the coast with it’s own ruined castle complete with pub within the ruins called The Lairds Inn (which of course we visited – curiocity – nothing else)….

this is our camping pitch

- just below the ruin and also by accident just below the pub!

the dogs were right at home

and Storm did a bit ofroute planning for the following day

7 Stanes Cycling

amandahan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:06:36 +0000

Ian’s been doing several of the 7 Stanes cycle routes on our various weekends away in Scotland – I liked the pics of this one…

and I especially liked our nights camp site – in Jo’s garden!

The Solway Coast, Dumfrieshire

amandahan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:43:36 +0000

Solway Beaches

The Solway Coast, Dumfrieshire

amandahan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:32:53 +0000

Solway Beaches

playing in the rock pools

Siula

Storm

Our camping spot at Castle Point Camp Site

The Lakes – The Red Arrows, Windermere

amandahan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:28:02 +0000

What can I say – it was a fantastic display!